Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
April 2004

Visual Search Engine Learns From Your Prefences: Ujiko   Ujiko is a new visual search engine that will be available tomorrow. Strictly related to Kartoo, Ujiko allows the user to select, comment and annotate all of the preferred results with maximum ease of use. By clicking on a heart rather than a trash can the... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Ujiko -- April 30

Defining Online Collaboration: More Than Just Technology   The META Group "defines collaboration as social skills, relationships, and practices, along with technology services, that improve how people work jointly and substantially together (sharing responsibility and risk) - to communicate needs, coordinate activities, share information, exchange know-how, build community, or achieve a common (team) objective... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - The Meta Group - Analyst Insights -- April 29

Presentation Effectiveness: How To Get Your Message Across?   Regardless of the length of a presentation, audience members will recall no more than one important message or significant finding from a presentation, and, unless it is reinforced later, will forget even that one message or finding in about one week. They'll retain impressions about the... read more | cat.: | Link Dave Pollard -- April 29

New Grassroot Tool Tracks Music Preferences   "Audioscrobbler is an amazing community music tracking application that is really starting to gain some steam. The premise is pretty simple, you run a small app on your deskop which sends information about what songs you are playing on your computer's MP3/CD player. Now that they... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Creative Commons -- April 29

Why Copyright Is Broken And Content Sharing Is The Wave Of The Future   "It may seem unintuitive to argue that packaged commercial content can co-exist alongside consumer content while concurrently stimulating content creation and sharing. In order to understand how this can work, it is crucial to understand how the current system of copyright is broken and can be... read more | cat.: | Link Joi Ito -- April 28

Try-Out Best Open Source Content Management Systems   Are you interested in finding out more about content management systems? Open source solutions? Would like to try out Drupal, WordPress, pMachine, Nucleus? You need a CMS to power your news portal or an open source content management system (like Moodle) for your e-learning program? "This... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - opensourceCMS -- April 28

Google Alert Launches Personalized Auto-Filtering   Google Alert is an extremely effective and well designed online service that allows you to track any topic, search or reference by leveraging a sophisticated query engine that taps Google for answers and automates this process so that it generates results on a daily basis. You... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Google Alert -- April 28

Get The Pulse Of The Online Collaboration Industries   There is indeed so much to be learned in this blooming online collaboration marketplace that only by having a continued and intense exposure to different collaboration technologies one can truly appreciate the opportunities and routes opening up for many companies to create a successful business and... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- April 27

The Nonsense Of 'Knowledge Management'   This interesting paper "Examines critically the origins and basis of 'knowledge management', its components and its development as a field of consultancy practice. Problems in the distinction between 'knowledge' and 'information' are explored, as well as Polanyi's concept of 'tacit knowing'. The concept is examined in... read more | cat.: | Link T.D. Wilson - Information Research 8.1 -- April 27

The Individual Is The Epicenter Of The New Media Revolution   It is here. This is the new frontier. One, that requires individuals with a brave spirit and an open attitude toward openness and transparency to start interacting and taking on the opportunities available in this new rich vastland. The game of life for these individuals is all... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 26

The Individual Is The Epicenter Of The New Media Revolution   Many are the forces at work at the crossroads between communication and new media technologies, and the changes taking place are truly sweeping the news, publishing and media industries in ways we could have hardly foreseen a few years ago. One thing looks certain. The individual is... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 26

News Sources Ranking By Moreover   This is a full list of the standard sources that are available in Moreover's Public Feeds and Metabase, sorted by a four-valued ranking of sources by editorial quality (1-5 decreasing quality). Keep in mind that Moreover can quickly and easily add customized sources for our clients,... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Moreover -- April 26

The Roles Of Information Architecture And Design   A short summary of new media strategies and their importance beyond the level of simple design analysis, for any organization. Information architecture and information design are also presented in context and with a simple explanation of their role and function. "The world of Web design has... read more | cat.: | Link Memes.org - [via The New Media Sphere] -- April 25

Lost Your Web Traffic? Ask Hitbox Customer Love   This is quite a unique story, and it deserves all of your attention if you are a web site owner or manager, utilizing WebSideStory Hitbox to live track your site visitors. If you are one such person and have been experiencing a sudden drop of visitors... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 25

Sudden Loss Of Web Site Traffic? Using Hitbox To Track Visitors?   If you are a Hitbox Professional user and have been scratching your head over what was happening with your Web site traffic, breathe again. Your site is still doing great. On the other hand you may want to read the details of what is really happening... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 25

A Prescription For Business Innovation   A Prescription for Business Innovation: Creating Technologies that Solve Basic Human Needs. "... many businesses are now reaching out to involve customers, alliance partners and even competitors in their problem-solving teams, because they help bring different points of view to the creative process, and because these... read more | cat.: | Link Dave Pollard -- April 25

Sharing Is The Real Marketing: The Cheapest Way To Move From Unknown To Known   Creative Commons encourages artists to share and distribute their work for free. And that could be the key to a new multibillion-dollar industry. "Creative Commons is like a marketing tool," says Magnatune founder John Buckman, who has grossed $180,000 for 126 musicians since May 2003. "Free... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Business 2.0 -- April 24

Breaking The Art Market Closed Circles   "If we could freely display every piece of art we came across and enjoyed, and if we actively pursued new creations, it would only be natural to pass older pieces along after a certain amount of time. We only have so much room in our lives... read more | cat.: | Link Amanda Koh - [via Minciu Sodas] -- April 24

Buyer's Review - Robin Good Plays The Masterjuggler   Yesterday the first session of Kolabora Live took off by putting under heavy testing my ability to manage unforeseen technology hiccups. While my schedule for the premiere event was to showcase the brilliant live presentation solutions offered by InstantPresenter and VirtexC3, we ended up covering iVocalize... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora Live! -- April 23

More Than A Web Browser: Opera Sings RSS   Opera has just launched the latest version of its competitive alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser, which includes a new look along with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and RSS feed aggregation capabilities. For the first time, users of the Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD and... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Internetnews.com -- April 23

Lazy Person's Guide To Being A NewsMaster   This is part 1 of Roland Tanglao's new guide called The Lazy Person's Guide to being an NewsMaster. "What is a NewsMaster? Robin Good (as far as I know) defined the term in his excellent post, The RSS NewsMaster as RSS Dolby. I would generalize this... read more | cat.: | Link Roland Tanglao - Streamline -- April 23

RSS Will Drive The Next Generation Of Net Business Models   "The emancipation of Web authoring has already democratized information publishing. In turn, RSS provides a mechanism to liberate the other end of the pub sub collaboration. When subscribers can harness the aggregated authority of the feeds and items they and their peers pay attention to, the... read more | cat.: | Link Steve Gillmor -- April 22

Good Stories Are Like Nice Gifts   A story is like a gift. "There is no perfect gift for everyone, but with some attention to the audience, what their expectations are likely to be, some thought on an appropriate choice, and some appropriate and attractive but not extravagant packaging, every gift-giving, and every... read more | cat.: | Link Dave Pollard -- April 22

The Emerging Business Experience Parameters For Online Communications   "The Online Presence Spiral - an interactive experience that is engaging, accessible, immersive - not just IM indicators but sound quality - active cams, mobility etc. Emergent thoughts that we need a new "Presence Formula". This post represents rough notes on how online presence is being... read more | cat.: | Link Stuart Henshall -- April 22

Plenty Of New Options For Independent Musicians   "INgrooves, the world's largest digital record label, has released a proprietary software program, INgrooves Digital Music Access(TM) ("IN-DMA"), which will allow artists and labels, primarily in the Dance & Electronic genre, to view and manage their music for sale on all the digital services." This is... read more | cat.: | Link Sellout Central - [via Creative Commons] -- April 21

Content Management Comes To The Desktop: SiteBreeze   "Triplehash has released SiteBreeze, a cross-platform desktop-based content management system that creates static HTML websites based on one or more templates. Anyone who knows how to use a word processor can update a website and publish the changes to the Internet with the click of a... read more | cat.: | Link SiteBreeze - [via Content-Wire] -- April 21

Credit Cards Safer When Sound Enabled   BeepCard is a technology company. They sell a sound authenticator for credit cards. The demo looks like a credit card -- an actual credit card that passes all the credit card specs for bendability and reliability and everything -- and contains a speaker and a sound... read more | cat.: | Link Bruce Schneier -- April 20

Theory and Practice Of Online Learning   "In the seven weeks since its launch, more than 11,000 people have downloaded the online book, “Theory and Practice of Online Learning,” Athabasca University's most recent contribution to online and distance education around the world. Edited by Drs. Terry Anderson and Fathi Elloumi, “Theory and Practice”... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Athabasca University -- April 20

How To Design Online Courses: Transform Not Transfer   The message in this useful article is simple: "one needs to design an online course with an attitude that it is different from a residence course. Instead of piling on the assignments that instructors must grade and making irrational promises to answer all posts, the instructor... read more | cat.: | Link R. Thomas Berner, DEOS News - [via Stephen Downes] -- April 20

The Future Of Weblogging   "The rise of Weblogging has been a cold shower for the complacent mass communication industries. Although the Weblogging pioneers are due much praise, their own rhetoric deserves examination, and they could also raise their sights higher. Nico Macdonald reports, and concludes with a radical proposal for... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - The Register -- April 19

Why National ID Cards Will Not Make Us More Secure   "The potential privacy encroachments of an ID card system are far from minor. And the interruptions and delays caused by incessant ID checks could easily proliferate into a persistent traffic jam in office lobbies and airports and hospital waiting rooms and shopping malls. But my primary... read more | cat.: | Link Bruce Schneier -- April 19

Google Helps You Gauge Which Ads Work Best   "A better way to see what works best - Ad conversion tracking. The holy grail of marketing is a complete understanding of what part of the marketing mix is most effective for converting shoppers into buyers. Businesses large and small took a step closer to attaining... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Google -- April 19

Blogs In Education: What 's A Blog? Why Would I Want One? How Do I Get One?   "Don't let a lack of technical skill stop you from contributing to the internet! Blogs are the easy way for anyone to publish online. It's estimated that there are over 4 million blogs worldwide. You could say they are delivering the “democratisation” of the internet that... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Australian Flexible Learning Community -- April 18

Not Everyone Is A Blogger: Where To Start With Personal Online Publishing   Robin Good responds to a direct email from a reader wanting to be successful with his Web site and personal book selling business. In his answer, Robin reviews some basic principles of online communication strategy while providing down-to-earth advice to those just starting out with online,... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 18

New Tools For The Novice RSS NewsMaster: FeedSweep   A new free online service called FeedSweep provides the ability to render RSS/XML news feeds into HTML, making it very easy for Web site publishers to integrate news headlines and excerpts from other sources, into their Web page. FeedSweep also provides an advanced feed layout customization... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - FeedSweep -- April 18

Live Webcasting From The Eye Of One Person   Stephen Downes describes a very likely scenario of how live conferences in physical reality will be augmented by personal video broadcasting and conferencing technologies. "This is cool. Send a person with this sort of set-up to a live conference. Webcast the proceedings as experienced by the... read more | cat.: | Link Stephen Downes OLDaily - [Via Unmediated] -- April 17

Turn-Off-Your-TV Week Is Next   TV-Turnoff Week is organized each year by TV-Turnoff Network. TV-Turnoff Network is a national nonprofit organization that encourages children and adults to watch much less television in order to promote healthier lives and communities. In addition to TV-Turnoff Week, TV-Turnoff Network created and runs More Reading,... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - TV Turnoff -- April 17

Adware, Spyware, System Monitors And Trojan Horses Defined   A reminder for those who have not yet taken the time to inform themselves: spyware and adware are big. "Typically, spyware arrives bundled with freeware or shareware, through email or instant message, or by someone with access to a user's computer. Adware is advertising-supported software that... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Earthlink -- April 16

The Competitive Edge   A newly announced monthly Kolabora Live! event is completely devoted to cover key trends, new technologies, best practices and marketing strategies in the conferencing, online collaboration and live presentation industries, is now open for registration. Targeted at companies, developers, marketing people and researchers, this new event... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- April 16

Enabling Webs Of Trust Through Mobile News Publishing   This is a proposal for the extension of the Blogosphere, the network of Weblogs. It includes an interesting presentation outlining the idea of a network of independent, interactive 'freeporters' and a good discussion of the way relationships work between sender and receiver in networks. "MPN (Mobile... read more | cat.: | Link Tom Nicolai - [via Stephen Downes] -- April 16

The Consumer Is The Future Media Producer   "Massive changes in the terrain of media and entertainment over the next five to seven years will force tectonic shifts in the business models of broadcast and film companies, predicts a report from IBM Business Consulting Services (BCS). The report, Media & Entertainment 2010, unveiled today,... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Digital Media Europe -- April 15

Make Your Personal Publishing Efforts More Effective: Here's Where To Start!   This email came in this morning in my inbox. It comes from a guy who has just published an independent book on philosopy and the future of this world: (Photo Source: Per-Åke Byström (50) Sollentuna, Stockholm, Sweden - via Stock Exchange) "Robin, I am trying to understand the stuff... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 15

Personal Publishing Tips For Starters   Publishing your first book? Trying to get some exposure online? Having a hard time converting those many visitors into buying customers? Here is a valuable set of basic recommendations and tips for those of you just starting out with personal publishing projects. My short essay is... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 15

Amazon Enters The Search Business: A9 Launched   Amazon has just launched its new major search engine online today. Called A9, the Amazon search engine uses Google' search results while adding some unique extra features: a) Book results, b) Search history, c) a nifty search Toolbar. The first two are two optional vertical panes... read more | cat.: | Link John Battelle -- April 15

How To Convert Your Newsletters Into An RSS Feed   "NewslettersByRSS is a bridge product. It allows newsletter publishers to continue to deliver their newsletters by email while trying out a new delivery vehicle - RSS technology. Web sites have long used Newsletters to increase their 'draw' of visitors back to their web site. This... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- April 15

How To Build Your Own SteadyCam   I have been a long time passionate videomaker and have greatly enjoyed making my little movies with the use of economic consumer equipment and innovative shooting ideas. One great device that I always wanted to have, but could never afford, has long been a small steadycam... Link | cat.: Johnny Chung Lee - [via Slashdot] -- April 14

How To Circumvent Censored Internet Access   "With these steps, you can turn your home computer into a miniature Web server that you and your friends can connect to when your Internet access is censored. If you are blocked from accessing a Web site, you can connect instead to the Web site running... read more | cat.: | Link Bennett Haselton -- April 14

PowerPoint to Flash Conversion Tools - The PPT2Flash Top20   PPT2Flash Top20 Why Would You Ever Want to Convert a Powerpoint Presentation into a Flash File? Here is a detailed list of the key advantages for converting a PowerPoint presentation into a Flash file. No matter what your final goal is, a Flash-based presentation goes a long way... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 14

PPT2Flash Top20: How To Convert PowerPoint To Flash   Find out why converting your PowerPoint presentation to Flash may be a great advantage for both you and your potential audience. Listed for you the twelve great reasons why Flash is a "killer" presentation tool for both live and "online" presenters and the best twenty tools... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 14

Serious Business Networking On Spoke   If you have been exposed to social networking tools like Ryze, LinkedIn, Tribe.net, Ecademy, Orkut, Zero Degrees, Huminity, Friendster, Visible Path, and to one of the few other ones available out there, and you have been disappointed with what you have seen, time has come for... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 13

Best And Latest Tech Support Utilities For Your PC   The Internet and networks - can't live with them, can't live without them. But it doesn't have to be that way. There are great downloads that can help you make peace with the technology you love to hate. Reviewed for you: Bandwidth Controller: Limit Bandwidth Hogs... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - PC Magazine Shareware Update Newsletter -- April 13

Good Enough Is Not Enough: A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools   This essay is a manifesto about software for collaboration -- why the world's future depends on it, why the current crop of tools isn't good enough, and what programmers can and must do about it. "Society's problems are scaling at unprecedented rates, so solutions need to... read more | cat.: | Link Eugene Eric Kim - Blue Oxen Associates -- April 13

Windows Media Player Troubleshooting: The WMP Mini FAQ   Created by one of the actual developers working on the Microsoft Windows Media team for the past seven years, this is the most exhaustive online resource you can find about Windows Media Player and installation, troubleshooting, incompatibilities, error codes, DRM issues and whatever else you may... read more | cat.: | Link WMP Mini FAQ - [via Iserializable] -- April 12

RSS Scraping? How To Create A Generic Web-To-RSS Converter   This is a technical article that requires knowledge of programming and XML. It offers one greatly documented approach (5000 words) to how a "generic" non-RSS powered site or blog can be made to generate a standard RSS feed. The article provides also useful information on how... read more | cat.: | Link Roy Osherove - ISerializable -- April 12

How To Find Out Whether A Book Can Be Republished Online   How Can You Tell Whether a Book Can Go Online? In order for a book to go online, either the copyright holder (usually the author) has to give permission, or the book needs to be in the public domain (i.e. copyright on the material has expired),... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - The Online Books Page -- April 12

Collaboration On The Edge: Groove The Peaceful Force   Many people think that I am sold out on Groove. But if you read my rich literature on the subject you will see that things are not really so. In my personal reporting about this extraordinary technology I have kept throughout a good balance in highlighting... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 11

RSS Feeds Offer Quality Targeted Advertising Opportunities   "RSS, or XML Syndication, has the potential to offer unique and targeted advertising opportunities to online publishers and the marketers they want to attract. Even though the majority of XML Syndication activity exists in community blogs frequented by tech-geeks, information technology (IT) professionals, and other types... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - MediaPost -- April 11

Microsoft Future Strategy   So what happens now that Microsoft is essentially unfettered thanks to a few payoffs and a $10 million per month legal bill. What I see coming is karmic retribution that begins with a phase I think of as "the fleecing of the customers," in which we... read more | cat.: | Link i, cringely - PBS - [via Slashdot] -- April 11

Groove: The Peaceful Force   Many people think that I am sold out on Groove. But if you read my rich literature on the subject you will see that things are not really so. In my personal reporting about this extraordinary technology I have kept throughout a good balance in highlighting... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 10

Swapping News Rather Than Music   "By the year 2010, file-sharers could be swapping news rather than music, eliminating censorship of any kind. This is the view of the man who helped kickstart the concept of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing, Cambridge University's Professor Ross Anderson. "..."If you can break the grip of the... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - BBC News -- April 10

Where End Users Meet The Industry: Kolabora Buyer's Review   Kolabora launches a new set of monthly events devoted to showcasing live, new competitive collaboration, conferencing and live presentation tools that offer cutting-edge features without requiring the budget and IT force of a multi-national organization. In each Kolabora Live! Buyer's Review event Robin Good summarizes and... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- April 10

Fast, Light And Easy: Shinkuro Makes Small Group Collaboration And File Sharing A Snap   Shinkuro is a new collaboration technology which allows groups to easily share document and files of all kinds, as well as to send files, text chat and screen share while maintaining presence and instant messaging abilities. Shinkuro is small, fast, easy to use and does not... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 9

Track, Compare And Measure Your Google AdSense Results: AdSense Tracker   AdSense Tracker helps website owners participating in the Google AdSense™ program to get a more detailed overview of how their sites are performing. Google's lack of reporting leaves publishers guessing as to which sites, pages, and ad styles are effective and which aren't. This AdSense™ tracker... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - AdSense Tracker -- April 9

Mac Getting More Popular Again? First Mac Trojan Detected   The first Mac OSX trojan horse, a piece of malicious code that intrudes computers without explicit consent from the computer owner, has been reported to be out there in the wild. The news item, initially reported by the Mac News Network and then by Slashdot, is... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Slashdot -- April 9

My Guru For Grassroots Ethical Marketing   If you want to learn and find out more about ethical marketing success stories, instances where ignoring the ethically questionable "easy money" paid big dividends for a company, product or individual, head off to Shel Horowitz' site and sign-up for his valuable Positive Power of Principled... read more | cat.: | Link Shel Horowitz -- April 8

Welcome To The Global Village: Some Considerations For Doing Usability In The Global Marketplace   "Recent history and the Internet have opened up some unprecedented global marketing possibilities. The ability to reach a global market on the Web has highlighted some interesting challenges for user-centered design as well. One largely anticipated outcome of globalization was convergence. Levitt (1983) predicted that shared... read more | cat.: | Link Kath Straub - Human Factors International -- April 8

DEMOletter: The Newsletter That Tracks Emergent Technologies   "It is not enough to make computers easier to use; they must become transparent to drive order of magnitude growth in adoption of new technology-enabled devices. In effect, technology will not become fully pervasive until it becomes fully invisible. Today, technology is a barrier as much... read more | cat.: | Link Chris Shipley - DEMOletter -- April 8

How Working Groups Can Further Connect Without Adding Further Technology: Good Interviews Ross Mayfield   "Computer-mediated communication is the lifeblood of social software. When we use e-mail, instant messaging, Weblogs, and wikis, we're potentially free to interact with anyone, anywhere, anytime. But there's a trade off. Our social protocols map poorly to TCP/IP. Whether the goal is to help individuals create... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 7

How Working Groups Can Further Connect Without Adding More Technology: Good Interviews Ross Mayfield   "We are social animals for whom networked software is creating a new kind of habitat. Social software can be defined as whatever supports our actual human interaction as we colonize the virtual realm. The category includes familiar things such as groupware and knowledge management, and extends... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 7

Use Cases For Interface And Interaction Design   "Use cases are widely used in large projects to capture the functional requirements of software systems. In the hands of interaction designers, use cases can serve as a powerful tool for brainstorming workflows and bridging the gaps between design and development." ... read more | cat.: | Link Henrik Olsen - guuui - [via InfoDesign.org] -- April 7

Why Questioning, Testing And Measuring What Happens On Your Web Site Is So Critical To Online Success   "I will never be too clever to ever stop measuring how people use our Web site. I don't know what will work with our visitors the first time around. I couldn't have said that one headline would work better than another until I tested it. I... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - MarketingProfs.com -- April 7

New Ways To Connect People And Content   Waypath is the public front end of a busy engineering/think tank lab. conceived to enhance the weblog community by providing new ways to connect people and content. Waypath works around new and fascinating ways to extract more value from content, people and information already floating... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Waypath -- April 6

Virtual Time-Capsule Takes You Where You May Have Not Been   Well this is really not my typical spotting, as this beautiful time capsule has been long praised, reviewed and acclaimed by many sites around the world. What strikes the most, in this impressive 360° view of Times Square on last New Year's eve, is the genuine... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Panoramas -- April 6

Cost-Effective Live Presentation Tools Come To Market   A good number of very competitive new live presentation and collaboration tools is now hitting the market and leaving some of the traditional large enterprise players off in the dust. Especially in the presentation-related area several new offerings have made their successful debut while offering some... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 6

Present Live With C3 Collaborator   Virtex Collaborator is one new cost-effective real-time presentation and conferencing solution offering audio and video-conferencing for both the SOHO and enterprise markets. Collaborator is the youngest brother in a fast growing family of live presentation and conferencing solutions that Virtex has been refining over the last... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Virtex -- April 5

Get Your Favourite RSS News On Your Front Page: MediaScooper   MediaScooper is a new FREE service that allows you to display any RSS feed on your Web site with maximum ease. You need to simply log into MediaScooper (no registration required) and to select one of the many RSS feeds already listed there or to add... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Mediascooper -- April 5

Separating Myth From Facts: Understanding Open Source Software   Mark Webbink, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Red Hat, Inc., wrote this article for corporate attorneys, explaining free and open source software and comparing various open source licenses, detailing how the GPL really works, explaining US copyright law, and listing some corporate law office... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Groklaw -- April 5

How To Identify Good Technology?   In this well written essay, Stephen Downes clarifies general weaknesses and limitations of many popular technologies while extracting with precision nine key traits that set apart great technology tools from popular time and money wasters. The essay is part of a non-commercial free downloadable book entitled:... read more | cat.: | Link Stephen Downes -- April 4

Nine Rules for Good Technology   Introduction Today's educational technology is like a Rube Goldberg contraption. Enter any technology-enabled classroom or other facility, and you will see a mish-mash of computers with associated wires, video displays, modems, ITV, CD-ROM libraries, tapes, and more. To use this technology effectively and avoid being distracted by... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good